Vouchers harm public schools

4:19 AM,
Mar. 23, 2013

Gera Summerford

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Gera Summerford

Rep. Joe Pitts said it best this week: "The very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expecting a different result. I believe the bill before us repeats the same mistakes we are currently making in our education policy."

This legislative session is full of public education "reform" bills that do significantly more harm than good for our students. Pitts could have been talking about a number of bills, but this day was about the private school voucher bill (HB 0190), the "Tennessee Choice and Opportunity Scholarship Act."